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Completed Tornado Diagram. Tornado diagrams, also called tornado plots, tornado charts or butterfly charts, are a special type of Bar chart, where the data categories are listed vertically instead of the standard horizontal presentation, and the categories are ordered so that the largest bar appears at the top of the chart, the second largest appears second from the top, and so on.
NOAA National Weather Service Improves Tornado Rating System at NOAA News; The Enhanced Fujita Scale (EF Scale) at Storm Prediction Center; EF-Scale Training Archived June 21, 2017, at the Wayback Machine at The Warning Decision Training Branch of National Weather Service (NWS) The Enhanced Fujita Tornado Scale at National Climatic Data Center
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According to the National Weather Service, a tornado warning means there’s imminent danger to life and property in the warning area, and you should immediately move to an interior room on the ...
Learn about the formation and characteristics of hurricanes, typhoons and tornadoes.
When that happens, knowing the difference between a tornado watch vs. warning can make a huge difference in your weather preparedness. The terms are often confused and aren't quite intuitively ...
Weather Warning – A generic weather warning may be issued for extreme weather events for which there is no suitable warning type, because they rarely occur. For example, for 50 km/h winds following an ice storm which could cause structural wind damage, even if the wind warning criteria of 90 km/h (56 mph) is not expected to be reached.
An example of a tornado warning polygon issued by the National Weather Service. A tornado warning (SAME code: TOR) is a public warning that is issued by weather forecasting agencies to an area in the direct path of a tornado, or a severe thunderstorm capable of producing one, and advises individuals in that area to take cover.